United States v. Roy Lee Pierce, James Evans

How courts have described this case

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• utilizing a two-factor test to analyze a case-specific question of whether an airline’s employees were acting as a private actor or government agent when they searched the defendant’s bags
• “Un der the theory of Pinkerton, a conspirator can be found guilty of a substantive offense committed by a coconspirator and in furtherance of the conspiracy, so long as the conspirator’s acts are within the reasonably foreseeable scope of the conspiracy.”
• “Under the theory of Pinkerton, a conspirator can be found guilty of a substantive offense committed by a coconspirator and in furtherance of the conspiracy, so long as the conspirator’s acts are within the reasonably foreseeable scope of the conspiracy.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).